RELX

Data Engineering Lead

RELX

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Oxford • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AirflowAWSCloudETLJavaPythonSDLCTableauTerraform

About the role

  • Accountable for team performance – manage a high performing agile delivery squad, ensuring you nurture team skills, trust, and relationships through coaching and mentoring.
  • Accountable for releases – set technical development and coding standards that make up a robust and mature SDLC, and review team releases to guarantee these are met.
  • Accountable for shared services – build common frameworks and patterns that can be easily reused, contributed to, and reliably deployed by other teams via self-service.
  • Accountable for best practices – establish component specific guidelines in collaboration with your team, wider engineering teams, architecture, end-users, data product owners, and enablement teams, to promote these through regular knowledge sharing sessions.
  • Accountable for operational efficiency – drive improvements in efficiency, reliability, and scalability supported by logging, monitoring and observability as a foundational capability.
  • Responsible for adoption – promote the platform capabilities through technical communities of practice leadership, high internal standards for documented processes and internal guides, and take steps to capture and action user feedback.
  • Responsible for platform evolution – collaborate with key stakeholder groups to analyse and identify capability gaps, and drive discussions required to make a case for change.
  • Responsible for technical governance – establish and manage the technical design authority process for each capability to successfully govern self-service use of the platform.

Requirements

  • Team leadership – driven line manager and technical lead, deeply interested in coaching and mentoring, to motivate cross functional squads to deliver complex technical initiatives.
  • Software development lifecycle (SDLC) – applied understanding of SDLC best practices, having delivered improvements in previous teams’ SDLC and DataOps /DevOps maturity.
  • Agile delivery – facilitating ceremonies, removing impediments, coordinating requirements refinement to ensure tasks are achievable, and driving a culture of iterative improvement.
  • Modern data stack – hands-on deployment and governance of enterprise technologies at scale (e.g. Snowflake, Tableau, DBT, Fivetran, Airflow, AWS, GitHub, Terraform, etc) for self-service workloads.
  • Coding languages – deployable and reusable Python, Java Script, and Jinja templating languages for ETL / ELT data applications, data pipelines, and stored procedures.
  • Thought leadership and influencing – deep interest in data platforms landscape to build well-articulated proposals that are supported by strong research, value delivery, and previous success in driving but also adopting change.
  • Solution design and architecture – apt at creating comprehensive technical design documents, including architecture and infrastructure artifacts, to support scalable, secure, and efficient data platforms, ensuring reliable data flows from ingestion to consumption.
  • AWS cloud ecosystem – deep knowledge of AWS data and analytics services and the infrastructure required for production grade data solutions and applications.
  • Prioritisation – adaptable to changing needs within the organisation with a professional, flexible and pragmatic response to rapidly evolving priorities, while mitigating impacts.
  • Data and technology governance – knowledgeable in applying data management, data privacy and data security practices at scale to ensure platform use is compliant.
Benefits
  • Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
  • Access to learning platforms and encouragement to book up to 10 days focused learning/development time per year
  • Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
  • Wellbeing programs
  • Life assurance
  • Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Long service awards
  • Save As You Earn share option scheme
  • Travel Season ticket loan
  • Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
  • Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
  • RELX Cares days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
  • Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
  • Access to extensive learning and development resources
  • Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
agile deliverysoftware development lifecycle (SDLC)PythonJavaScriptJinjaSnowflakeTableauDBTFivetranAirflow
Soft skills
team leadershipcoachingmentoringthought leadershipinfluencingprioritisationadaptabilitycommunicationcollaborationproblem-solving